And so are the others who think that this will work and not simply cause the collapse of online banking while also providing a convenient avenue through which genuine terrorists and rogue states could implement cyber-attacks.

Hopefully there aren't enough MPs and people in the press who are stupid enough to force this through, and I suspect that Cameron and Clegg probably think the same too - he gets to advocate a policy that stupid Tories like, appealing to their base, while Clegg gets to claim that he's put a stop to it, appealing to the LibDem's base, and at the end of it, Cameron gets to claim that he was stymied by soft liberals.